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Sergeant Charles Floyd (1782-1804)

Born in 1782 in Kentucky.

Parents: Robert Clark Floyd and Lilyann.

Expedition service from 1 August 1803 to 20 August 1804; pay--$86.33 1/3 (which was apparently given to his family).

Died 20 August 1804 at Floyd's Bluff near Sioux City, Iowa at about age 22. Floyd kept a journal while on the journey, which consisted of fifty-six numbered pages of text. He is buried at Floyd's Bluff, near Sioux City, Iowa.

Gass was particularly known for his carpentry skills. His journal was the first published account of the Expedition, in 1807. He died at the age of 99, the longest-lived member of the Expedition.

Sergeant John Ordway (ca. 1775-ca.1817)

Born about 1775 in Dumbarton, Merrimack County, New Hampshire.

Parents: John Ordway and Hannah Morse.

Expedition service from 1 January 1804 to 10 October 1806; pay–$266.66 2/3. Married Gracey around 1807. (She apparently died by 1809.)

Married Elizabeth Johnson (a widow) around 1809.

Died by 5 February 1818 in New Madrid, New Madrid County, Missouri at about age forty-two. Cause of death unknown. Children: Hannah and John (by Elizabeth).[11][12][13]

Sergeant Nathaniel Hale Pryor (ca. 1772-1831)

Born about 1772 in Amherst County, Virginia.

Parents: John A. Pryor and Nancy Floyd.

Married Margaret Patton 17 March 1798. She may have died by 1803.

Expedition service from 20 October 1803 to 10 October 1806; pay–$278.50.

Ensign in the infantry, 27 February 1807; 2nd lieutenant 3 May 1808; resigned 1 April 1810. Served in the War of 1812 as a first lieutenant in the infantry, 30 August 1813, and captain, 1 October 1814. Honorably discharged 15 June 1815.

May have married Nancy S. Melton on 23 February 1811. A son, William Stokes Pryor was reportedly born on 15 November 1811, and Nancy reportedly divorced Nathaniel in 1818.

Married an Osage woman apparently in the 1820s; three children.

Died 9 June 1831* in Arkansas Territory (near present Pryor, Mayes County, Oklahoma) at about age fifty-nine. Buried in Fairview Cemetery, east of Pryor.

Estate probate proceedings began in St. Louis in December of 1831, Thomas Ingram, Jr., administrator.

I take 9 June to be the most reliable death date because it was reported just weeks after Pryor's death. Since the body was re-interred and the headstone is not the original, the date on the headstone may be based on hearsay. Larry Morris, Genealogy Chair

Private William Bratton (1778-1841)

Born 27 July 1778 in Augusta County, Virginia.

Parents: George Bratton and Jane Elliott.

Expedition service from 20 October 1803 to 10 October 1806; pay–$178.33 1/3.

Married Mary/Polly Maxwell on 25 November 1819 in Warren County, Kentucky.

Died 11 November 1841 in Waynetown, Montgomery County, Indiana at age 63. Buried in a well-identified grave in the Old Pioneer Cemetery at the eastern edge of Waynetown (west of Crawfordsville), Indiana.

Private John Shields (1769-1809)

Expedition service from 19 October 1803 to 10 October 1806; pay–$178.50.

Died in December of 1809 near Corydon, Harrison County, Indiana at age forty. Cause of death unknown, but death was apparently nonviolent. Reportedly buried in unmarked grave in Little Flock Baptist Church cemetery, south of Corydon.

Estate probate proceedings began in January of 1810 in Harrison County, Indiana; John Tipton (son-n-law) and Nancy Shields (widow) executors.

Children: Janette Martha (or Martha Janette). She married her cousin John Tipton about 1807; they were divorced in July 1817.[61][62][63]

Private Alexander Hamilton Wilard (1778-1865)

Born 24 August 1778 in Charlestown, Sullivan County, New Hampshire.

The plaque at Willard's grave lists a birth date of 24 August 1778, which is consistent with the enlistment record of Willard's being twenty-one years old in 1800. However, other family records give a birth date of July 1777, which is consistent with the obituary.